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And Meals to Go Before We Sleep
As food series ends, the story is just beginning |
Tom Philpott |
19 Oct 2007 |
Grist Feature |
| During my trip to the Midwest this summer, I saw many unsettling sights: vast monocropped landscapes lashed regularly with chemicals, insidious low-slung buildings that imprison thousands of animals and concentrate their waste. Yet I returned oddly invigorated, buzzing about Iowa's promise as a sustainable-ag mecca. Amid the cornfields and the CAFOs, I saw thriving homestead farms whe ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, food, industrial ag, Iowa, local food, sustainable ag (all these topics) |
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A Tale of Two Counties
In the farm belt, a look at the extremes of agricultural production |
Tom Philpott |
10 Oct 2007 |
Grist Feature |
| When I arrived in Iowa on a reporting trip this summer, I expected to experience it with city eyes: frankly, as a rural backwater. I've lived on a farm in the Appalachians of North Carolina since 2004, but the ten years before that, I lived in Mexico City and New York City. I don't know from vast fields and wide horizons. Instead, barreling down the highway between appointme ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, farmers markets, food, grassroots activism, industrial ag, Iowa, local food, sustainable ag (all these topics) |
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Forget the Farm Bill
For now, local politics is the way to effect ag-policy change |
Tom Philpott |
02 Aug 2007 |
Victual Reality |
| Over the past few years, grassroots support has swelled for new federal farm policies -- ones that promote healthy, sustainably grown food, not the interests of a few agribusiness firms. Udder madness. Photo: iStockphoto The target of much of this organizing has been the 2007 farm bill. If past farm bill debates have been the concern of a small cadre of lobbyists and activists, this one ... |
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| Topics: ag policy, agriculture, Congress, farmers markets, food, industrial ag, Iowa, local food, organic food, politics, sustainable ag, Victual Reality (all these topics) |
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